Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in family dynamics and labor market interactions, with … shifts in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, family labor supply, gender inequality, and childrearing. This chapter …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

instead of in one year's time. Controlling for a number of individual and family characteristics, we find that an increase in …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban …